It was a short stay in South Florida for defensive back Jamar Summers. Summers, who the Dolphins signed mid-May after the folding of the Alliance of American Football (AAF), spent just over two months with the Dolphins but now appears to be a casualty of the depth in Miami’s secondary.
Summers, who last played for the Birmingham Iron and was one of the league’s interception leaders (3) when the season folded, played his college football at Connecticut and has spent time with the Pittsburgh Steelers last summer before failing to make the 53-man roster in the fall.
The waiving of Summers was done to accommodate the addition of Will Holden to the roster — Holden looks to make the Dolphins as a swing offensive lineman. And while there’s ample competition for Holden on the offensive side of the football, there is much less established talent there than what Summers was going to have to fight through in order to make the Dolphins’ opening day roster in 2019.
The Dolphins kick off their training camp program this week, along with a majority of the NFL. Summers will have a small window to find a new NFL team to call home before he starts losing ground for the season.
